MUSIC
New Album, Unexpected Direction, will be available June 14th 2024
VIDEOS
THIS IS ME
After discovering a love for the saxophone at age 14, I embarked on a musical journey with a mission - to create compositions that bring novel sonic experiences to the international jazz stage.
As a French-born artist and now New York City jazz scene composer and saxophonist, I infuse my worlds into my music.
I am always seeking for the stories untold, both on stage and in the studio and sometimes just in time to be captured on record.
I create in the flow of experimentation, allowing an experience, thought, emotion or dream lingering in my mind to take form in a piano progression. Each arrangement of notes unfolds organically, revealing itself and evolving into unexpected directions - into fully realized compositions.
Music is the voice of balance in a world of diversity. And Jazz, to truly hear and understand it, one must remain open— to the flow of the inner tempo, the exploration of identity, vulnerability, and the beauty found in imperfection, both individually and collectively.
In my endeavor to create musical journeys that move, transform and transcend, I offer you a glimpse, an invitation - to travel in the way that I do when I play and create, to tap into the energy of the collective sound and embark on a journey, into the unexplored parts of your being."
DISCOGRAPHY
PRESS
Radio France, FRANCE
By Alex Dutilh and E.Lacaze
6/14/2024
L'audace dans les directions inattendues du rythme et du temps : le saxophoniste et compositeur américain Alex Madeline dévoile son premier album "Unexpected Direction" qui paraît chez Lyonhill...
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Er-em online magazine, GERMANY
6/9/2024
Manche Dinge brauchen ihre Zeit – im Fall des seit siebzehn Jahren als professioneller Musiker aktiven Alexandre „ALEX“ MADELINE...
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Musicologie.org, FRANCE
by Alain Lambert| 6/19/2024
Un projet ambitieux, et réussi, pour explorer cette direction inattendue, avec ce saxophone qui se promène et improvise parmi toutes ces voix musicales embrassées par le compositeur...
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ANNECARLINI.COM, USA
by ANNE CARLINI| 6/15/2024
This recording of complete musical awareness, opens on the aching orchestral yearn, at first, latterly a scattered, yet playful series of rhythms that drives Direction and the sweeping elegance of Balance and then we get the more precise, delicate, spoken word work of Or3...
The Times Standard, USA
by The Time Standards| 4/25/2024
Saxophonist Alex Madeline, known for seamlessly blending American jazz with French flair, is set to embark on an exhilarating musical journey with the release of his debut album, “Unexpected Direction”...
Occhimagazine, USA
by Jonathan Blackman| 4/11/2024
Saxophonist and Composer Alex Madeline Releases Debut ‘Unexpected Direction’...
Jazzquad, RUSSIA
by Leonid Auskern| 4/05/2024
French Saxophonist and Composer Alex Madeline recorded his album in New York, the jazz capital of the world...
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Friday Feels podcast, USA
by Saj and Nicole | 3/8/2024
Tune in to episode 14 and let’s chat about Freedom through the Art.
In this episode, we are joined by Alex Madeline, French born and New York City based musician and composer who has just released two singles of his debut album “Unexpected Direction” and shares with us his journey with money as a creative solopreneur...
Ouest, France
by Gildas Lemardelé | 2/29/2024
The Black Cat, USA
by Nicole Carmine| 01/31/2023
Jazz à Caen, France
by Stéphane Barthod | 12/7/2017
ENTRETIEN. Le musicien d’origine caennaise Alex Madeline sort un nouvel EP depuis les États-Unis...
It's all that jazz with Alex Madeline.
We meet up in the bustling streets of New York City and immediately I’m thinking to myself …
It’s not every day that you have a rendezvous with a sexy sax player...
Depuis de nombreuses années, les musiciens de jazz sont attirés par l’Amérique. Génération après génération, plusieurs normands, de naissance ou d’adoption, s’y sont frottés...